Why study Latin?
New figures show that demand for Latin teachers outstrips supply. We shouldn't be surprised
Latin rides again as schools turn back to classics
Guerillla effort by lone teachers has seen number of state schools teaching the subject rise
‘Why don’t we stop hurting the planet?’
Telling our children about climate change could leave them traumatised. When and how should we do it, asks Leo Hickman
This spiteful campaign has neither rhyme nor reason
Catherine Bennett: Surely there should be statute of limitations on hounding Derek Walcott. After all, his actions weren't unusual then
Derek Walcott should still be in the race
Lindsay Johns: Allegations of sexual impropriety should not prevent Walcott becoming the Oxford professor of poetry. Art and life are separate entities
Alison Weir
Obituary: Educator, author and historian who wrote a compelling study of her Ayrshire forebears
‘Don’t say I was wrong’
Chris Woodhead is suffering from motor neurone disease but his guns are still blazing. He tells Polly Curtis why there are now probably more incompetent teachers than ever
Middle-class pupils have better genes, says Chris Woodhead
Some children are 'not very bright' and education ministers will never change that, claims Chris Woodhead
The prescience of CP Snow, 50 years on
Jonathan Jones: The novelist's warning of cultural fragmentation has come to fruition; but now we face a worse deterioration than he feared
The last word in academic publishing
Christina Zaba: With the loss of printing jobs at Cambridge University Press will go another part of the subtle art of making perfect, complex books
Not the headmaster’s diaries
John Crace's digested read of John Rae's book The Old Boys Network
Censorship row over Carol Ann Duffy poem dropped from syllabus
Teachers challenge the government's powers to censor English literature at key union meeting
Writings from Warsaw
Historian Samuel Kassow tells John Crace that by recording their life in the ghetto, Jews defied Nazi efforts to destroy them